A new season of music, research and cultural promotion is opening: “Abitare l'infinito” is starting, the concert series conceived and built with passion to accompany you, from May to December, on a musical journey through eighteenth-century Lucca and beyond.
On Sunday 22 June , at 9pm, the Real Collegio will host the concert I Borbone a Lucca , with the Dulce in Corde quartet, accompanied by Lorenzo Phelan on the cello and Giacomo Martinelli on the guitar, who will perform music by Boccherini and Puccini .
On Saturday 12 July , at 6 pm, the Parco dell'Infinito will host the concert Paesaggi e culture , with the Orchestra Sinfonica della Versilia conducted by Stefano Teani and the participation of mezzo-soprano Olympia Hetherington , for a selection of pieces by Berio , Debussy and Jongen . Admission is free.
On Friday 1st August , at 9pm, in the Garden of the Town Hall of Bagni di Lucca , the Betti Award ceremony will be held, in collaboration with Virtuoso & Belcanto . The star of the evening will be the Arola Quartet (Samuel Hirsch, Alla Ternova, Viktoria Vanteeva and Zoia Sudnis), with a program dedicated to chamber music. Admission is free.
On Saturday 18 October , at 6 pm, at the Auditorium del Suffragio , Abitare due continenti will be held, with the Nuove Assonanze Orchestra, directed by Enrique Mauricio Radillo , and the pianist Luigi Borzillo , for a repertoire that combines Rachmaninoff , Mozart and traditional Mexican music.
On Sunday 9 November , at 6 pm, the Real Collegio will host Fiabe, danze e dialoghi , a concert for two pianos with Giovanni Passalia and Claudio Cantini , who will perform works by Ravel and Mozart-Grieg .
The review will conclude on Sunday 14 December , again at the Real Collegio , at 6pm, with the traditional Christmas Concert , where the pianist Cristian Monti will perform pieces by Geminiani , Schumann , Roussel , Debussy and Ravel .
Tickets for the paid events of the Abitare l'infinito festival will be available on the website https://oooh.events/ starting from Wednesday 14 May .